Re: [PATCH] tracing: Cleanup the convoluted softirq tracepoints

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/19/2010 04:05 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>> JMP/Jcc does have a consumer -- the IP -- and actually measuring shows
>> that it is much, much worse than NOP and other dummy instructions.
> 
> But how does JMP vs Jcc compare?
> 

*As far as I know* they're the same, except of course that a direct JMP
never mispredicts.

	-hpa
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